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Feb 1 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
One recipient, CONSORTIUM FOR ELECTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESS STRENGTHENING, is the recipient of 48 active grants worth $528 million, all awarded from USAID and going to various nations. ಠ_ಠ
Going to do a deep dive. 🧵👇
Let's begin with a few preliminary links.
🚨 NGO / GOVERNMENT GRANT TRACKING TOOL 🚨
🔍 FOLLOW THE GRANTS: CONNECT NGOs TO YOUR TAX DOLLARS 💵
Ever wonder exactly which government grants fund nonprofits? Now you can know—because I’ve cracked the code.
Unlike older tools that only sift through nonprofit 990s (which don’t directly show government dollars), I’ve mined the USASpending database to create fuzzy matches between nonprofits and their linked government grants.
All grants are active. All grants are ongoing.
Here’s what this tool can do:
✅ Search by EIN, Keywords, UEI, or Recipient Name: Zero in on the nonprofit or grant you want to investigate.
✅ View the Award ID & Funding Agency: See where the money came from—and how much.
✅ Dollar Amounts Matched to EINs: Transparent numbers, no guesswork.
✅ Location-Based Matching: Only UEIs and grants with address matches to nonprofits are included.
This means you can now trace your tax dollars with precision—from the grant to the nonprofit and back to the government agency funding it.
💡 If you're an advocate, watchdog, or just curious about accountability, this tool will empower you to dig deeper than ever before.
Ready to see how government money flows? Try it now and uncover the truth.
⚠️ Heads-up: It’s data-heavy, but I made it as efficient as possible. Link below! 👇
Here's the link: joeisdone.github.io/award_search/
Jan 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 $307,437,376 in government funds flowing to a single address providing immigration-related services: 700 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21230.
Here’s how the funds are distributed among the organizations at this location, which also reported $64,002,311 in individual contributions:
🔹 (132574854) LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE (Government Grants: $221,476,051, Cash Contributions: $7,685,497)
🔹 (132574963) LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC (Government Grants: $7,126,482, Cash Contributions: $53,561,562)
🔹 (522112460) INTERCHURCH MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INC (Government Grants: $78,834,843, Cash Contributions: $2,755,252)
Here's what the grant graph looks like:
Jan 22 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Hey 🐕@DOGE Looks like we've got some Canadian 🇨🇦spending to trim! Almost 2 billion of it, actually.
These six large Canadian (?) nonprofits brought in a total of $2,137,653,021 in contributions, with $1,770,132,574 (about 82.8%) coming from taxpayers.
• (981651870) Toronto Metropolitan University (2022): $380,128,385 total; 97.13% taxpayer funded
• (986001623) University of Western Ontario (2022): $548,429,888 total; 92.38% taxpayer funded
• (981263645) University of Ontario Institute of (2022): $82,538,194 total; 84.91% taxpayer funded
• (986001141) Governing Council of the University of Toronto (2022): $1,009,404,000 total; 79.46% taxpayer funded
• (986001253) United Way of Greater Toronto (2023): $116,682,147 total; 18.58% taxpayer funded
• (320615606) Downtown Ontario Improvement Association (2022): $470,407 total; 100.00% taxpayer funded
@DOGE Oh, how did I overlook Waterloo University?
EIN 980061413, gets $482,253,299 in government grants. That easily puts us over the top in 2 billion.
Jan 18 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
🧵 Thread: Faith, Finances, and Taxpayer DollarsS
I cross-referenced the number of members in each denomination with the taxpayer dollars received by 501(c)(3)s that include the denomination name in their title.
Seems like Lutherans are by and far the most popular with Uncle Sam! Here's the deep dive:
Pentecostals win the small government spending award—4.6% of the population (~15M). Despite their numbers, there are only 39 nonprofits with Pentecostal in their name.
Total taxpayer funding is a mere $134K, or less than 1 cent per Pentecostal!
Jan 15 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🧵THREAD: Yes, things really are worse off for younger people. Here's the data.
The chart below is top-line BLS aggregates from 2019 to 2023. At first glance, the changes from 2019 to 2023 don't seem alarming. Income rose ~23%. Total expenditures? Also up ~23%. It all balances out, right? Not quite. Let’s dig deeper.
First and most obvious is the "inflation tax."
A single taxpayer in 2019 earning $82,852 owed 17% brackets and would have a post-tax earnings of $68,766.
That same taxpayer would have paid slightly more taxes at $101,805 percentage-wise in 2023, at 17.52%, taking home $83,972. That's $530 less after adjustments.
This does not take in account property taxes, state taxes, or other fees.
Jan 14 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 THREAD:
🚨💰 Where is your money going? 💰🚨
This thread shows how nonprofits receive millions in public funds. Some depend almost entirely on your tax dollars. And, out of fairness, I also included some right-wing groups - but as you might guess, they aren't nearly as impacted. I accommodated as many requests from the earlier EIN thread as possible.👇
Taken from the data I aggregated and posted at joeisdone.github.io/nonprofit - more user friendly edition coming soon.
There are 108 nonprofits with “refugee” in their name, receiving a total of $989M in contributions. $577M comes directly from government grants, with $16M more in indirect funds. That’s $593M of taxpayer money. Some rely 100% on public funding when indirect and direct sources are added. 🤯
Jan 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
43.2% of all 501(c)(3) cash contributions are from government grants.
I have a big idea to itemize and expose every indirect taxpayer dollar for every single 501(c)(3). This system would show every indirect taxpayer dollar for every 501(c)(3) and make it searchable.
Example flow of taxpayer funds:
1. Charity A receives 50% of its funding from taxpayers. 2. Charities B and C initially have no direct taxpayer funding. Charity B’s total contributions are $500. 3. Charity A donates $100 to Charity B, which includes $50 of taxpayer money. That $50 means 10% of B’s total ($50 out of $500) now comes from taxpayers. 4. Charity B then donates $200 to Charity C. Ten percent of that amount ($20) is taxpayer money.
So:
A is the source of direct taxpayer money, A donates to B, B donates to C
B got $50 in indirect taxpayer money
C got $20 in indirect taxpayer money
Back at PC and working on this now.
Jan 12 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
🧵 Thread
Our good senator @ewarren has been exposed to using ActBlue as a vehicle which takes 3.95% and then disburses to United Way of Greater Los Angeles and Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.
If you donated $100, who takes what cut?
I am going to attempt the difficult job of unwinding the charity rabbit hole to understand this.
Let's start with the top level - ActBlue's 3.95% processing fee cut. They take $3.95 from that $100, leaving $96.05.
That $96.05 is held up to 30 days (doesn't get to victims immediately!) and then we assume:
- $48.03 goes to United Way of Greater Los Angeles
- $48.03 goes to Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation
Dec 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So far, 41 Democrats have voted yes and not a single one has voted no.
That is after a near-unanimous no yesterday.
There are only two meaningful differences from yesterday to today:
1. The national debt ceiling is no longer extended in today's bill. 2. This comes after a threat of breaking the bill down to individual votes.
Everyone should be giving this development a lot of critical thought.
A message is being sent.
First, do not listen to a single conservative who claims the debt ceiling is a good thing. Today proves that Democrats want to badly conserve it.
Fiscal conservatives are so weak, what should be their greatest weapon, is now appropriated by Democrats.
Abolish the debt ceiling and extensions.
Dec 20, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The last thread was just a quick table of contents diff. Here, I'll do a deeper dive on the differences on the contents of today's bill and yesterday's bill - they are largely the same.
Debt extension is gone, obviously.
SEC. 3304 - EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR FAMILY-TO-FAMILY HEALTH INFORMATION CENTERS - now has $3,000,000 instead of $2,500,000.
This appears to be new:
Dec 20, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Yesterday's CR vs. today's CR: Major changes in today's version. Let's dive into what's different. First and foremost, the Temporary Extension of the Public Debt Limit has been removed. Here's what else changed: 🧵
Yesterday's CR included Sec. 5106: Temporary extension of public debt limit.
Today's CR does not include this provision. It's been entirely removed.
Other sections remain unchanged.
Dec 19, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hey @SpeakerJohnson just FYI
It won't matter how quickly anyone tries and ram through a bill
We've already written all the code, thanks to today
X will be summarizing the next bill not within hours, not within minutes, but within seconds
This is not an exaggeration. I'll publish some handy scripts 🧵
@SpeakerJohnson Here's a script that will format PDF to text nicely
This makes it a lot easier to feed into LLMs or other scripting
🧵 1/ Parsing the new Continuing Resolution (CR) spending bill turned up some head-scratchers through AI. I'll be publishing a total summary here, but I'm posting head-scratchers as I see them.
2/ PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY (Section: PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY):
$125.1M supposedly tied to Hurricane Helene recovery. But how does a natural disaster justify more ammo? Where’s the data showing lost stockpiles or disaster-response firefights?